Convergent Plate Boundaries

Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

• Energy from the Sun
• Magnetic Pole Reversal
• Convection currents in the mantle
• Faults in Mountain Ranges

A subduction zone is formed...

• when the oceanic crust sinks below the continental crust

• at every type of convergent plate boundary

• at every type of divergent plate boundary

• at transform boundaries

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• strike slip

The process by which one plate is forced under another

• Radiation

• Convection

• Conduction

• Subduction

Plates move towards one another at ______________ boundaries.

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• detergent

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• Volcano
• Mountain
• Rift
• Island Arc

Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

The area where two or more plates meet is called a __________________.

• fault
• plate boundary
• plate edge
• ring of fire

The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....

• Convergent Boundary
• Divergent Boundary
• Transform Boundary
• Plate Boundary

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform